Its ok Evan. We all pretend Carnage in C minor didn't happen either.

 

Nice to see a hint of a Toy-Perceptor possibly happening too. I'm also a huge fan of that multi-color sketch of the basic parts breakdown of the mold. It's cool to see how the basic shapes come into being.

Also interesting to see the whole part about the head storage. After some of the more dour ones (....yeah, Pointblank), it's nice to see a change made for appearance and not purely for budget.

 

Great design 

 

It's also "sorta" in Marvel UK

 

It broke down. Very tragic.

 

He's one of my favorite studio series figures.

 

... so, to avoid seeing the back of the robot head in microscope mode, they left a gaping hole in the robot mode's back? That does not seem like a good tradeoff to me, I would not care diddlysquat about seeing the back of the robot head in alt mode, but I'd even take squaring off the back of the head to fold it flush there rather than look at the hollow back of the figure in robot mode. This is such an odd thing that they seem to be doing more and more lately, that's a big compromise to robot mode just to achieve something minor in an alt mode.

 

I'd assume it was the budget that got in the way of not including a back panel to conceal the head better. He is a pretty tall and dense figure by what I hear, so yea.

 

Well, they waited this long to do a Perceptor, so it'll probably happen with Wild Rider? Unless he already happened.

 

The budget kept them from using a second panel to close the hole, but we're seeing in this BTS entry that the design choice was having the head flip out from the front where a panel naturally covers the hole in robot mode or the back where nothing covers it, and because they didn't want to see the back of the head in alt mode they chose to just leave it gaping in bot mode. Of course you're right that adding a simple cheap part, a friction-fit hinged plate, would have solved both issues, but that's the brand we're stuck with.

 

I really do like this Perceptor figure a lot, but I can’t understand why they couldn’t add just one more parts count and included a panel to cover the huge whole on the back.

 

I think Wildrider already happened. I'm not sure, bit isn't Perceptor the first SS86 figure to have a BTS?

 

The SS Dinobots got some BTS but not by Evan glaub ich  

 

Oh, yea. I had forgotten.

 

Every time they mention alt head sculpts being produced, it makes me wonder what happens to them?

I imagine a bunch of Perceptor heads being thrown in a smelting pot like the Unicron scene in the movie.

Creepy!

 

I heard that both heads get produced but obviously only one is used. The extra head’s plastic simply gets recycled. It’s more cost effective to make one mold with multiple heads and simply recycle the extra head. That’s what I read somewhere.

 

Or randomly do what the Creatures Collide set did and just pack in the extra head cause why not

 

Still wondering if they'll do a Micro Man-colored Blaster repaint and name it "Bluster" just to cement that piece of canon?  

 

So did he just say "hey, if you want, you can swap heads between Percy and Magnificus so Percy can have his toy-accurate head" or not really?

 

I mean, it's basically just Twincast but blue chest. Wouldn't be too hard to do?